# Visual Design Lead

**Company:** [Mercor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Brand Design
**Salary:** $200k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Visual Design, Brand Identity, Brand Systems, Typography, Layout Design, Storytelling, Web Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Product Marketing, Presentation Design, Social Media Design
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Leads Mercor’s visual brand identity across campaigns, web, social, events, and marketing materials. The role requires 4+ years of visual or brand design experience, a strong portfolio, excellent visual judgment, and the ability to turn complex ideas into polished creative systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the evolution of Mercor’s brand identity across campaigns, launches, web, social, events, and internal communications.
- Translate complex ideas about AI, talent, and work into clear, compelling visual systems.
- Create high-impact brand assets, including landing pages, presentations, social graphics, advertisements, illustrations, event collateral, and product marketing visuals.
- Develop and maintain a distinctive, modern visual language.
- Partner with marketing, product, recruiting, and leadership teams to communicate Mercor’s story across channels.
- Build scalable brand systems, templates, and guidelines that maintain consistency as the company grows.
- Work autonomously on ambiguous ideas while delivering polished creative work quickly.

## Requirements
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, brand systems, typography, layout, and storytelling.
- Passion for building distinctive, polished, and culturally relevant brands.
- 4+ years of experience in brand, visual, or graphic design.
- Experience designing across web, social, campaigns, presentations, and marketing surfaces.
- Strong taste, attention to detail, originality, and ability to move quickly without sacrificing quality.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience designing for AI, marketplaces, recruiting, fintech, or other complex technical products.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $200,000–$300,000 annually.
- Generous equity grant vesting over four years.
- Up to $15,000 relocation bonus.
- $10,000 housing bonus for employees living within 0.5 miles of the office.
- $1,500 monthly meal stipend.
- Free Equinox membership.
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.

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